Professor Jonathan Saha jonathan.saha@durham.ac.uk
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Whiteness, Masculinity and the Ambivalent Embodiment of ‘British Justice’ in Colonial Burma
Saha, Jonathan
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Abstract
When British judges in colonial South Asia attempted to perform their duties with detached objectivity they were also performatively enacting a particular construction of imperial white masculinity. This was an ambivalent embodied enactment. When the figure of the objective judge was confronted by critics as white and male, its claims to be objective were under threat. As a result of this ambivalence, it was an imperial white masculinity that could not name itself. Instead, it was a white masculinity constructed through a differentiation that was made with feminised, non-white bodies that were deemed partial.
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Saha, J. (2017). Whiteness, Masculinity and the Ambivalent Embodiment of ‘British Justice’ in Colonial Burma. Cultural and Social History, 14(4), 527-542. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2017.1329125
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | May 19, 2017 |
Publication Date | 2017 |
Deposit Date | Sep 2, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 25, 2021 |
Journal | Cultural and Social History |
Print ISSN | 1478-0038 |
Electronic ISSN | 1478-0046 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 527-542 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2017.1329125 |
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